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FILE - Attorney Ernest Morial, right, gets a hug from his wife, Sybil, after apparently winning an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, Nov. 5, 1967, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

FILE - Attorney Ernest Morial, right, gets a hug from his wife, Sybil, after apparently winning an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, Nov. 5, 1967, in New Orleans. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)

FILE - Sybil Morial, Edgar Chase III, artist Ernest M. English and Stella Reese Chase look at a historical marker honoring significant locations in the Civil Rights movement in New Orleans, outside Dooky Chase's Restaurant on May 3, 2021. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

FILE - Sybil Morial, Edgar Chase III, artist Ernest M. English and Stella Reese Chase look at a historical marker honoring significant locations in the Civil Rights movement in New Orleans, outside Dooky Chase's Restaurant on May 3, 2021. (Max Becherer/The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate via AP, File)

Attorney Ernest Morial, right, speaks on the telephone as his wife, Sybil, looks on after he won an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, in New Orleans, Nov. 5, 1967. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)

Attorney Ernest Morial, right, speaks on the telephone as his wife, Sybil, looks on after he won an outright victory in his race for a House seat in the Louisiana Legislature, in New Orleans, Nov. 5, 1967. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell)